Since 2019: Board member of the SGKM - Swiss Society for Communication and Media Studies.

Since February 2018: full professor at the IKMZ and head of the department "Public Sphere and Society"

Since May 2015: Head of the fög - Research Center Public Sphere and Society / University of Zurich

Since May 2015: President of the Kurt Imhof Foundation for Media Quality

January 2015 to January 2018: Full professor of communication science with a focus on organizational communication at the University of Salzburg

2013-2014: Co-director of the fög - Research Institute Public Sphere and Society / University of Zurich

2012-2014: Visiting professor for organizational communication, University of Salzburg

2006/2010: Substitute professor at the University of Freiburg

2004-2014: Lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, Fribourg, St. Gallen, Lugano and Salzburg on the topics of organizational communication, economic sociology and media change

2004: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) with the dissertation "Reputation in the Media Society", University of Zurich

1995: lic. phil. in sociology, journalism and communication science and computer science, University of Zurich